artmageddon (u/artmageddon)

artmageddon commented on Whatever happened to the bee apocalypse? backreaction.blogspot.com... · Posted by u/nsoonhui

jb1991 · 4 years ago

I thought this was going to be about the impending doom of the Mexican killer bees we were all warned about in the 80s but that never came. It was in the news for months about a cloud of killer bees.

artmageddon · 4 years ago

I thought they were the Africanized ones? Those were the ones I read about as a kid in my school library, and the way they depicted their projected spread across the USA made it look like a pestilence worthy of Revelation. I honestly thought I wasn't going to live to become an adult because we'd all be over taken by super aggressive bees.

artmageddon commented on Most common mistakes during interviews aitorvs.github.io/post/mo... · Posted by u/aitorvs

yankjenets · 6 years ago

Because the answer should be an obvious "no it is not guaranteed to be sorted".

If the answer is yes the input is sorted, then that context should have been given in the original prompt as it is a completely different question.

artmageddon · 6 years ago

It is, but some interviewers can be intentionally vague.

artmageddon commented on Most common mistakes during interviews aitorvs.github.io/post/mo... · Posted by u/aitorvs

yankjenets · 6 years ago

> can I multiply a number by itself

This is a great clarifying question. Ambiguous from the prompt.

> what shall I return if there are multiple numbers meeting the criteria

This is a decent clarifying question. I think it is better expressed as a clarifying point instead of question--mention to the interviewer your thinking out loud; something like "if there are multiple options, I'll return an arbitrary pair". Ask if they are okay with that.

> is the list sorted

If I were the interviewer, this question would almost make me dock points off of the interviewee. Maybe not that strong as I do try and ensure people are as comfortable and open as possible in asking clarifying questions, but this barely qualifies as a clarifying question in my opinion. It is almost irrelevant to the prompt; if the lists were sorted and the interviewer failed to mention / there was some "trick" that they expected you to clarify, that would be an awful interview question.

That being said, overall agree with the sentiment and yes you should try and always ask clarifying questions and ensure you understand the problem statement.

artmageddon · 6 years ago

> > is the list sorted

If I were the interviewer, this question would almost make me dock points off of the interviewee

Why? Knowing that can be a useful filter to reduce the search time and space, assuming whole numbers only.

artmageddon commented on Office Space turns 20: How the film changed the way we work bbc.com/capital/story/201... · Posted by u/iamben

stevenjohns · 7 years ago

> Yes, you can legally change your name but it takes a lot of time and effort and could cause you a lot of grief with your family and professional confusion.

It took me 45 minutes at the Births/Deaths/Marriages office. If I recall, it cost $60.

artmageddon · 7 years ago

And how much time did you spend updating your new information with the government, your banks, your work, and other services that you interact with?

artmageddon commented on Facebook Field Guide to Machine Learning – video series research.fb.com/the-faceb... · Posted by u/tosh

amelius · 8 years ago

> Just don't read them and say you're an ML expert afterwards.

"ML expert" is the new "web developer"

artmageddon · 8 years ago

As someone going through a Master's in CS to get into ML, this makes me a little sad..

(though I do understand what you're getting at)

artmageddon commented on Is WebAssembly the Return of Java Applets and Flash? words.steveklabnik.com/is... · Posted by u/Vinnl

PretzelFisch · 8 years ago

You could run flash on android.

artmageddon · 8 years ago

Not all of us used Android when Flash was available for it

artmageddon commented on Employers will do almost anything to find workers except pay them more latimes.com/business/hilt... · Posted by u/SQL2219

throwaway494949 · 8 years ago

If you're a senior software engineer, come to Sweden. You'll at least get 6000 usd/month as an employee. Management usually has a background in tech, you get lots of vacation, parental leave, etc. You're not expected to stay longer than 5 pm and working from home is common. There are many interesting jobs in finance, telecom, automotive, entertainment, medicine, defence, and there are plenty of startups.

I work as a contractor in Stockholm (long term assignments; basically like employment but I pay my own taxes), and I can save ~80k usd per year (after expenses and taxes, no family though, but I live in the city center). To get paid more, I either have to specialize hard or move to Silicon Valley.

artmageddon · 8 years ago

Does $72K go far in Sweden? I would assume not due to taxes...? I'm in a position of ignorance so I'm just looking to get a better idea of what it's like there :)

artmageddon commented on Office 365 is being completely rewritten in JavaScript twitter.com/thelarkinn/st... · Posted by u/mhoad

sten · 8 years ago

Dev in finance here, VBA gets used more than I care to think about.

artmageddon · 8 years ago

My last job in finance(still am in finance fwiw) used much more VBA to price out billion-dollar swaps and swaptions than I was comfortable admitting to...

artmageddon commented on Office 365 is being completely rewritten in JavaScript twitter.com/thelarkinn/st... · Posted by u/mhoad

morrbo · 8 years ago

Why not C#? Seems a bit of a missed opportunity to feed some of the APIs undoubtedly created for this into the new .net core stuff. I guess i'll just keep dreaming of the day when i can reliably convert a docx into a pdf without using office interop.

artmageddon · 8 years ago

Reading this thread, with all the Javascript talk, makes me feel like I should be scared of continuing to be a C# developer..

artmageddon commented on Stepping towards a password-free world ebayinc.com/stories/blogs... · Posted by u/rauhl

Pimpus · 8 years ago

Regarding pasting passwords, that reminds me: I signed up for one site, I think it was Paypal, which had a password limit of 20 characters. Okay, that's already pretty bad -- it's an arbitrary limit and not as secure as I'd like for a site that has access to my credit cards and bank info.

Anyway, I generated a password using KeePass with I think 60 characters and pasted them in without error or warning. Turned out that only the first 20 characters got pasted in and the rest were silently rejected.

When I tried to log in I kept getting an invalid password error. No indication that the password I was trying to use was too long.

Only when I tried to change my password and type one in manually did I notice that nothing was getting entered after the 20th character.

artmageddon · 8 years ago

I ran into a similar issue myself. Why would PayPal, of all companies, have a problem with this?